Corn=Obesity

My paper is going to be about how corn-fed livestock affects people and how it can lead to obesity, but this article touches on more than just our meats. It goes in depth about how corn in general may be the leading cause of obesity. The large surplus of corn that we have, leads to why we use so much of it in so many different ways. We use it as a sweetener which is high-fructose corn syrup which is an inexpensive and very high concentrated product. High fructose corn syrup is used in basically every sweet thing you can think of which is why many people claim it leads to obesity. It is much more concentrated than regular sugar you would use in a home-made cake. Not only is the corn affecting the sweets, its having a toll on our meats as well. US companies use corn to feed livestock, which in turn changes the chemical composition of the meats we consume. The article talks about how the meats of corn-fed beef and grass-fed beef differ immensely. For example it talks about how the fat content of the meats is different, such as the saturated and polyunsaturated fats ratio that is in the meats. The article states that our extreme surplus of corn is not only the governments fault because they heavily subsidize the crop, they spend around 10 billion dollars a year to produce it. The surplus is also a result from the European Union and other countries refusing to purchase any genetically modified crops. Our GMO corn mixes with the unmodified corn so it still gets affected and the counties still refuse to buy it even though it isn't genetically modified, but the possibility of it being GMO corn is still likely.

https://www.baumancollege.org/cornucopia/